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Republic Wireless offers Moto X for $299 without a contract
Republic Wireless released the Moto X this month, offering their customers a huge step up from the only available phone until now, the Defy XT. New and existing customers can buy the Moto X for $299 with no contract. This is a huge discount in cost, as the full price from Motorola is $599. For [...]
1 Million Xbox One sold in the first 24 hours
The Xbox One was released last week in the United States to much fanfare. The Microsoft gaming console, whose name was unveiled in May of this year, sold over one million consoles in the first 24 hours of availability, even though it comes with a much higher price tag at right under $500. The [...]
How Google and Motorola change the smartphone landscape
When search giant Google acquired Motorola in April 2012 for $12.5 billion, everybody wondered what the company intended to do with the Motorola. The reason being, Google was never a hardware manufacturer, it had expertise in software and internet services. Moreover, Motorola was not in the best shape when it was acquired as its smartphones [...]
Xbox One Release date pegged for Friday Nov 22nd
Xbox One will be released at midnight of Friday November 22nd. A Day One update needs to be installed before first game is played. GameStop will be the first store to take your money. After 8 years of waiting for Xbox 360 upgrade, the Xbox One is finally here. Much anticipated release of new Xbox [...]
Moto G passing through FCC
Google’s mid-range Moto G phone has made it to FCC. As it stands, the US version of Moto G will support all GSM bands in US so we could see it available in all major outlets and carriers. Motorola Moto G phone launched in UK last week and many were anxiously awaiting an introduction of [...]
Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet coming to AT&T for $199 on November 22nd with two year contract
Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT Tablet will be available for sale for $399 on November 22nd, but there is a way to get it cheaper… much cheaper. AT&T will offer Nokia’s first tablet for half the retail price with 2-year contract and to spice the offer up further, it will throw in one of their [...]
Acer C720 Chromebook to sport a touch screen
Last month Acer introduced their new C720 Chromebook and now Amazon in France is offering the same Chromebook with premium touch screen. Will we see the same Chromebook in US? In October, we reported on a Haswell run Acer C720 Chromebook for $249. The sleek notebook featured 11.6 inch display, 1.4GHz Intel Haswell processor, 8 [...]
Nokia Black update to extend to all Lumia devices
The Black update promises low energy Bluetooth 4.0, the new Nokia Camera app and other improvements on all Nokia Lumia devices (eventually). Bluetooth 4.0 LE enables numerous accessories using minimal power. After the Amber update few months ago we were told that not all Nokia’s windows phones will be able to get Bluetooth 4.0 LE, [...]
HTC One 2 on its way by Q1 2014
HTC One successor codenamed M8 is reportedly going to be coming to all US carriers in winter. Evleaks confirms, that the popular HTC One device will be replaced by new M8 model, thus far referred to as HTC One 2 in first quarter of 2014. If rumours are to be believed, than HTC aims to [...]
Motorola slashes the price of Moto X to $99 on contract
Motorola decided to drop the price of recently released Moto X phone to just $99 with contract in hopes to attract more sales in upcoming Christmas season. Google’s Motorola Moto X phone was launched at the end of summer. The decently specced mid-range phone stood above the crowd with always listening capabilities and some other [...]
Motorola Moto G launching tomorrow
Google has released their Moto X phone in August. The touch-less and always listening smartphone is not a tier-one kind, but it does have solid hardware, 24 hour battery, android 4.3 software with nice camera app and few unique tricks and awesome customisation options that set this phone apart. Unfortunately, the price tag of $199 [...]
Samsung Galaxy S5 rumours
Galaxy S5 will not be available for Christmas, but rumours of upcoming smartphones are already making headways. Among the more consistent and prominent ones are new 64-bit processor, 3GB of RAM, 16 megapixel ISOCELL camera, and carbon fibre body. To better compete with Arch rival Apple and its A7 processor, Samsung is bringing in new [...]
Streamnation now offers sharing movies
With Streamnation users can now lend and borrow movies for 24 hours. Streamnation officially launched in July as the first media-centric cloud solution designed specifically for privately storing and sharing various types of digital media files. Earlier this week, Streamnation expanded its service with a feature that allows users to upload, store, and share their [...]
Polaroid Kids Tablet 2
Polaroid had just upgraded their Kids Tablet. The Polaroid Kids Tablet 2 features over 70 apps, games, videos and books from Disney, Marvel, Cartoon Network and more on Android 4.2 software. For $149 it isn’t a bargain, but it will make up for all the app money parents don’t have to spend. The 2nd generation [...]
LG launches G Flex curved smartphone
The world’s first curved and flexible smartphone, the G Flex will be start selling in South Korea for whopping 1 million KRW ($940 USD). France is next. The LG G Flex rumours were right on the button with specs and features, but LG Newswire filled us in on the release date in South Korea and [...]
AT&T will kick off sale of Nokia Lumia 1520 on Nov 22nd
Nokia’s newest windows phablet, the Lumia 1520, will start selling on November 22nd, but preordering brings users bunch of interesting perks. Preorders of Nokia Lumia 1520 started already, but AT&T will make it available on November 22nd. There are few perks for anyone willing to preorder it however. With each new Lumia 1520 windows phablet [...]
Samsung plans on 4K displays on smartphones by 2015
At Samsung Analyst Day event in Seoul, the Korean firm outlined their roadmap for next few years. We can look forward to 4K displays, new native, more powerful and energy efficient ARM processors and more. Rather than licensing devices from ARM, Samsung reveals an ambitious goal of manufacturing their own custom chips on ARM architecture [...]
Sony Xperia Z Ultra tablet at FCC
Sony had just passed a new 6.4 inch Sony Xperia Z Ultra ‘like’ tablet through FCC. The tiny tablet looks like an oversized smartphone, only without the phone capabilities. Unlike Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra flagship smartphone, this tablet lacks LTE connectivity and does not make phone calls. The tablet, going by name Sony TS-0010, offers [...]
